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Speaker 1: Cats up thing, little food for yourself life.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's pretty bad. Hey, it's pretty beautiful.

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Speaker 1: Thing beautiful that for a little more exciting, said, he

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Speaker 1: can cut your kicking with four thing with Amy Brown,

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Speaker 1: Happy Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Four Things, Amy here and I've got an og episode

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Speaker 2: for you. Four totally different things, although I will say

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Speaker 2: the first and the second thing are sort of related,

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Speaker 2: Like the title of the first thing is why do

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Speaker 2: we put things off that we really want to do?

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Speaker 2: And the second thing is just do the dang thing?

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Speaker 2: But they are different and when you hear the things,

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Speaker 2: you'll understand why. Third thing is the ADHD paradox. I

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Speaker 2: found this very interesting when I saw it. And the

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Speaker 2: fourth thing encouragement for a season of waiting, because waiting

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Speaker 2: is hard, and if you happen to be in a

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Speaker 2: season of waiting, this will just give you that extra

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get started.

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Speaker 2: First, man, Right, all right, let's talk about why we

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Speaker 2: put things off that we really want to do. Like

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Speaker 2: I want you to think about something that you really

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Speaker 1: I have done this many.

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Speaker 2: Times now, about a year and a half ago, I

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Speaker 2: think it was maybe even two years at this point.

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Speaker 2: Time has been weird lately. I took an improv class

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Speaker 2: and I absolutely loved it. I left it feeling energized,

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Speaker 2: and I told myself that I would sign up for

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Speaker 2: another session soon. So they're eight week courses, yes, but

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Speaker 2: guess what, I totally put it off.

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Speaker 1: And put it off and put it off.

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Speaker 2: I originally signed up for improv after I had that

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Speaker 2: So then I decided I would like to pursue more

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Speaker 2: That in the and then just stopped, stopped going, didn't

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Speaker 2: that I feared the rejection. And I don't know why

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Speaker 2: we do this to ourselves, because I know better than

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Speaker 2: I know all the things, So why was I putting

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Speaker 2: So there's that whole thing. Like that's an example, but

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Speaker 2: rehearsing worst case scenario. That's another tip, Like our brains

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Speaker 2: have helped me as I navigate some of this. All right,

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Speaker 2: hope y'all are having the day that you need to have,

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Speaker 2: and I will see you on Saturday for Outweigh and

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Speaker 2: then on Tuesday for the fifth thing with Kat.

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